Children's Secretary Ed Balls says grandparents are often the "unsung heroes" when it comes to looking after children.
Another helpful step would be to reduce the cost of working, especially the cost of looking after children.
The specialist teachers affected by the changes run support groups, looking after children with less complex special needs in mainstream education.
She qualified as a fitness instructor and spent some time in London looking after children with severe special needs before deciding to volunteer in Afghanistan.
Not all women do want to go back to work, which may be every bit as demanding as looking after children and far more competitive.
About a third of relatives looking after children because their parents are no longer able to can afford to provide basic items, a study has found.
"There is a very good argument that, particularly women who are at home looking after children, we can provide additional help for them, " Mr Hayes told the BBC.
Sarah, who runs a pub in Suffolk, said she had been lucky and had stayed well during her own treatment, allowing her to continue looking after children Tilly, aged seven, Freddie, aged four and three-year-old Connie.
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"Any council which decides that supporting a mainstream UK political party disbars an individual from looking after children in care is sending a dreadful signal that will only decrease the number of loving homes available to children in need, " he added.
Lord Henley said "what we are trying to do is create a system that will provide the necessary safeguards but does not make parents feel that their children are automatically safe - parents must still have the duty of looking after their children by warning them of potential dangers".
As a result, it argues, children from low income families are more likely to be cared for by providers who are looking after more children per member of staff.
There will be more money for roads and for looking after vulnerable children, adults and older people.
According to the new research, it is because mothers spend more time than fathers looking after their children.
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After his death she says she threw everything into looking after their children - Deirdre, now 33, Gregory, 30, and Kristin, 28.
According to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), the current childcare ratio in England limits one child minder to looking after three children under the age of two.
His mother, Mamie Connolly, soon tired of looking after two children on her own and walked out on both of them when Billy was barely four years old.
Even better, while the beans simmered in a pot for most of the afternoon, a hard-working woman like my great-granny could get back to washing clothes, canning, gardening and looking after the children.
So a rich man may have to cough up lots of money (including from assets acquired before the marriage, or inherited) to house and support a wife, especially if she is looking after the children.
He is also a little hard on the boomers, who have, after all, presided over economic growth, cloned sheep, become gay-friendly, spent a lot of time and money looking after their children and grandchildren, and who will not escape the current financial storm unscathed.
When Sian's not getting up at 3.45am, she's looking after her 4 children - who range from 18 to one!
On December 8th he proposed a new allowance for spouses (usually wives) looking after dependants (children, the old and handicapped).
"The sooner the department acts, the quicker this can be resolved and the assistants can get back to looking after special needs children, " he said.
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Mrs Warner has joined a campaign, which is led by the charity Grandparent Plus, for people looking after relatives' children to receive the same financial and social support as foster carers.
We have children knowing that we want them, we don't put the responsibility of looking after us and our other children on the eldest child in the family.
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Mr Webb also called for a greater use of "kinship care", where children are looked after by relatives or friends if their parents are not capable of looking after them, saying vulnerable children might do better if kept in their own communities.
By July 2011, Scotland's 32 local authorities were looking after 15, 892 children - an increase of 4% on March the previous year.
More than 1, 200 young people are looked after by foster carers with the council looking after some 3, 600 children in total.
Russia is the only European society that tops the list of the three most sought after children by couples looking to adopt.
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He said the Sisters of Nazareth had always tried to provide a compassionate and supportive home for the children they were looking after.
Until an extensive welfare system is put in place, Chinese children will be mainly responsible for looking after elderly parents.
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